Raja Ravi Varma Hand-Painted Frame – Lady with Sitar pattachitra raas leela making it equally suited to

making it equally suited to serving tea and snacks or simply sitting on a centre table as a decorative object in its own right

and link it with small hanging rings to a second plaque below carrying your family or couple's name

A trail of mehndi-style motifs runs diagonally across the copper sheet

dried across several days depending on the season

Is it a realistic sculpture or a stylised motif

Raja Ravi Varma Hand-Painted Frame – Lady with Sitar pattachitra raas leela making it equally suited toRaja Ravi Varma is widely credited with bringing a Western academic painting technique to Indian subjects, giving classical and mythological figures a soft, realistic quality that had rarely been seen in Indian art before him. This piece recreates that style in watercolour, showing a woman seated in quiet concentration, her sitar resting against her shoulder as she plays. The painting sits within a pink, quatrefoil cut wooden frame, its repeating cut